Lee Carter wrote me the other day: I was thinking about an idea for the website the other day. How about getting some of the deejays to do a one-off show, which would only be available from the website? I'm not talking about huge extravaganzas, something that could fit on one CD, so no longer than 8...

From David: Iwould love to deliver my Christmas card to you. It's the 34th annual David Marsden Christmas Eve Spectacular. Wow! 34?That's scary. ;-) This year there are two ways to hear the show. Here are the details: Saturday, December 24th LIVE - 7 PM to Midnight at 94.9 FM in the GTA. Or worldwid...

Hi friends, colleagues, party people, folks who have emailed me in the past: This is my rare entreaty for your help. For the past three months, I have been involved in a project with Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC). This project will come to fruition DEC 13thand it’s called “House Party.” T...

For those without a Toronto Star account: Sirius satellite radio on air by Christmas GREG QUILL ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST Sirius Canada, one of two subscription-based digital satellite radio operations recently licensed by the federal broadcast regulator, will be up and running before Christmas, with ...

As some of you here may know, I have a vested interest in satellite radio, having started TimeTrax - http://www.timetraxtech.com That said, I have have been listening to both Fred on XM and First Wave on Sirius for over a year, and without a doubt I have to say that Fred has far superior programming...

Thanks, it was a HUGE amount of work. There is no translator available for Discus -> PHPBB, so I ended up having to dissect the PHPBB database tables, and writing one myself. I also had to go through each thread in the old system by hand and classify them to fit into a topic in the new system. Then ...

I've replaced the old and rather dated Discus BBS system with this new PHPBB system, which many of you will be familiar with. I've spent the better part of a day transferring the thousands of old messages into the new system, and I'm still working on getting the search index built. Any comments or s...